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Love the green. The colors really set each other off nicely.

Got our wheels used, so not really sure what they are. One looks to be likely an Ashford Traditional, the other is an upright wheel, have not looked to see if I can find a brand that looks similar.

I haven't. Have you gotten on Ravelry? That may be a good place to get some folks experienced with it.

Looks good. Depends on what you want to do with it. If you ply it, it will give you the practice of plying before you get some really expensive fiber that you want to ply.

The little balls may be small felted pieces. Usually when I have something felt on me, it's a hunk of fiber that just won't come apart. But you'll know if it is felted if it you just can't pull it apart easily to fluff it.

No, it won't hurt the fleece to wash it several times. You'll just want to avoid felting it, which generally occurs more often with hot water and/or too much pressure or rubbing it together. What I do is put the fleece inside a zip or tie-closure laundry bag and then submerge it in the water...

You may need to wash it several more times. Even then, you may still find that there are small dirt/vegetable matter particles in it. After your final wash, as you start picking it up and pulling the fibers apart in prep for carding it, you will find that the remaining pieces of stuff start...

Oh yeah, I think $30/fleece is reasonable. When you're looking at buying ready made 100% wool yarn, one skein of mass-produced yarn from someone like Lion Brand will run you a minimum of $10/skein, usually more than that. A smaller manufacturer of wool yarn will cost more than that for a even...

Someone may have come up with what they think an average is but I don't know of any hard numbers. So many variables - how big is the fleece, how much of the fleece is usable and doesn't have to be discarded, plus how bulky your idea of bulky is, and whether you spin it and leave it as a single...

I don't have a place that I normally get them. I've just gone online and looked for nice deals and have bought some at craft fairs. One lady gave me a fleece that she didn't want to wash - it had a lot of VM (vegetable matter) to clean out of it. I washed it up, died it with koolaid, spun it...

It's been a while since anyone posted but some of us still monitor the thread. Glad to hear another person wants to learn to spin. Do you have the equipment yet or are you still looking?

Love it! Great job!

Beautiful yarns!

Great job! Welcome to the spinning world!

I saw that article and it looked interesting. Nice to know that it works!

Beautiful! I love the vibrant color!

Looks great! I bet it takes some time with those brushes - I feel like it takes forever with my carders and they are bigger than that. Which is probably why I have several bags of fiber just doing nothing :) Beautiful job even using dog brushes!

I think they intend to do something with the fiber but just never do it. Selling things isn't always easy - getting set up to sell, pricing, marketing, actually cleaning it since some spinners are loathe to buy any fiber if it doesn't come already combed/carded, etc. I knew of a woman several...

See if your friend has different carding cloths for her carder - she may have one that has the tines closer together to work with your alpaca. If not, try it out and see how it works - might be surprised. I was advised by an alpaca owner and several more experienced spinners, to wash the...

Have never heard of anyone being able to get enough hair from a poodle to even consider it. But if you've got it, why not try it? I've got bags of fluff from one of my dogs (long hair with thick undercoat) that I've been saving for several years. I know everyone usually mixes their cat/dog...